and just maybe the movie "PT-109" that was made about his time in the Navy during World War II. The "PT" stands for Patrol Torpedo (motor torpedo boats or MTBs) and were initially built as ...

Patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was built by the Electric Launch Company, now known as Elco Motor Yachts, headquartered in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was laid down on March 3, 1942, launched on June 20 ...

PT 109, like hundreds of its kin, was a patrol torpedo boat built in Bayonne, N.J., of plywood. Light and speedy, it carried four torpedoes. On the night of Aug. 2, 1943, about 800 miles north of ...

Kennedy’s PT 109. A team of experts from the Department ... The future president called the sinking of his patrol torpedo boat a defining moment in his life. He was awarded the Navy and Marine ...

a Mark 18 torpedo tube and a Mark 8 Mod 3 torpedo used by the U.S. Navy to outfit PT-type boats. A check of Navy records indicated PT-109 was the only patrol vessel lost in that location ...

Kennedy’s famed World War II torpedo boat PT 109. Ballard, famous for tracing the ocean liner Titanic’s remains as well as other historical shipwrecks, located what he believed was the PT boat ...

On August 2, 1943, while patrolling the Solomon Islands, Lieutenant Kennedy’s patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was struck by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. The much larger vessel sliced Kennedy's ...

In August 1942, during the American island-hopping campaign in the Pacific theater, 15 motor ... was PT-109, commanded by a future US President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Akella's PT Boats: Knights ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes ...

John Kennedy skippered one of them, the famous PT 109. And a book and 1945 movie ... During boot camp in San Diego he volunteered for motor torpedo boats and was sent to that tiny command ...

“PT 109,” an account of Kennedy’s World War II heroism in command of a motor torpedo boat that was rammed by a Japanese destroyer, marked the first time a major studio, in this case Warner Bros ...